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Telling Philippine Youth What They Need to Know
The population of the Philippines continues to grow at a rapid rate
of 2.3 per cent annually; the country has the highest fertility rate
in South-East Asia. Over 5 million married women are in need of birth
spacing or control. Socio-cultural factors inhibit family planning practice.
Read this case study on some successful approaches undertaken to address
the problem.
Training Young Women in Family Planning
Both the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo
and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, accorded the highest
priority to promoting gender equality, women's empowerment and the elimination
of all forms of discrimination against women. How is this achieved?
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